The game, invented by a Japanese educator to teach students math, has caught on around the world since we first started running it in 2009. By Will Shortz Times Insider explains who we are and what we ...

Will Shortz is to puzzles what Oprah is to books — an endorsement by the New York Times crosswords editor is as good as gold. He’s sold more than 5 million volumes of Sudoku games and has now moved on ...

An elementary-school math teacher silently paces his classroom in a pin-striped stockbroker shirt, his mouth full of braces. All around him, tiny students with pencils in hand struggle over puzzles at ...

<i>The New York Times</i> offers modest-sized KenKen puzzles, but Sudoku fans looking for a larger-scale challenge now have a new online option. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

You are powerless to stop KenKen. Perhaps the new Japanese arithmo-logical challenge, which debuted in the New York Times on Feb. 8, will burrow into your brain on account of a significant other, who ...

[Announcer] Four, three, two, one, KenKen. in newspapers of the world. I learned about KenKen through Games Magazine. In a graduate school class at Brooklyn College. Randomly, in maybe a airplane ...